I had the drainage tube on my AC plug up once. It ended up draining onto the floor of the passenger side. It was some kind of milky gooey crap that plugged it up. I suppose it could have been spiders though I figured it was mold. There was certainly mold in the carpet after it got soaked like that.

In a spider-free world, instead of the spiders making a nest and clogging the A/C drain, we would have needed to wait until the clog happened naturally. Meaning that this problem would have gone undiscovered for years.

"The vehicles involved are model year 2012 and 2013 Camrys, Venzas and Avalons, including hybrid versions of those cars."

Yessss. Once again, my 2007 Matrix slides under the recalls.

Although to be fair, I DID see some kind of orb-weaver wandering around on my dashboard a few weeks ago while I was driving home from school. Pretty sure it came in through the vents, but it disappeared again (on the passenger side) so I just locked the car, went in the house, and assumed it either got out or died later from being in the oven that is my car in the sun.

I want your skull:Sometimes they crawl into your beverage when you're not looking.[i.imgur.com image 501x643]

Don't worry. They don't drink much.

Urgh... I once inhaled a spider...

It nearly choked me to death.....iurgh,,,

I had a piece of clear rubber tube, and there was a spider crawling on the floor. I wanted to look closer at it, but it was moving.So I decided to suck it into the tube, so I could get a closer look at it without holding it.

I sucked too hard and the spider got breifly stuck in the opening of my windpipe - it took 4-5 seconds to cough it back up.

So that's the story about how I became arachnophobic.Thanks, childhood!

FTA: Sometimes, their webs can create a blockage in a drainage tube coming from the air conditioning condenser. That can cause water to drip down onto an airbag control module, causing a short circuit. That, in turn, could cause the airbag warning light to light up on the dashboard and it could even cause the driver's side airbag to deploy, something that happens with explosive force.

wombatsrus:FTA: Sometimes, their webs can create a blockage in a drainage tube coming from the air conditioning condenser. That can cause water to drip down onto an airbag control module, causing a short circuit. That, in turn, could cause the airbag warning light to light up on the dashboard and it could even cause the driver's side airbag to deploy, something that happens with explosive force.

Rube Goldberg called, he wants his gadget back.

I actually had something similar happen with my other Matrix - in the older model, at least, it's easy to accidentally disconnect that tube so that it drains inside the car. I about killed my dad when I found out he'd been driving my vehicle around Ohio like that for two weeks. The water was literally sloshing around on the passenger side.

/it got totaled less than a year later by an unrelated moron//saved me from yelling at him later if the floor had rusted out, I suppose.

FUMIGATE !! Found small webs in the car..said nopenopenopenope... rolled up windows, left car running with heater on, set off FOUR foggers in a row..new one every 15 minutes.. opened windows.. haz no spiders now...